Teaching across England

11,030 of the children missing education in England are in an authority where we already teach

The Department for Education counted 34,700 children in England on no school's roll and not being educated anywhere else. 32% of them live in the 31 local authorities below. This is what we do there, authority by authority, from each one's own record.

31local authorities, across all nine of England's regions
68,527lessons taught in them to date
145schools with their own arrangement
885places taken up

Children missing education: Department for Education, Children missing education, Autumn term 2025/26, published 2026-01-15. Plans issued within the statutory twenty weeks: Department for Education, Education, health and care plans, calendar year 2025, published 2026-09-17.

Every one of these has its own page, built from its own records

Not a regional variant of a national brochure. Each page opens on what is happening to children in that authority, then reports only what we delivered there, with every figure traceable to the record it came from. Start with your own.

North East · 1 authority

Stockton-on-Tees 113 lessons - 1 school teaching - 2 engaged 20 children missing education here

North West · 4 authorities

Lancashire 5,502 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 8 engaged 1,150 children missing education here Manchester 791 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 5 engaged 260 children missing education here Bolton 284 lessons - commissioned centrally 80 children missing education here Wirral 198 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 4 engaged 40 children missing education here

Yorkshire and the Humber · 2 authorities

Leeds 440 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 4 engaged 700 children missing education here North Yorkshire 108 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 2 engaged 220 children missing education here

East Midlands · 3 authorities

Leicestershire 785 lessons - 8 schools teaching - 8 engaged 340 children missing education here Leicester 271 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 3 engaged 340 children missing education here Lincolnshire 129 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 4 engaged 1,910 children missing education here

West Midlands · 2 authorities

Shropshire 226 lessons - 1 school teaching - 1 engaged 60 children missing education here Birmingham 218 lessons - 1 school teaching - 9 engaged 960 children missing education here

East of England · 4 authorities

Suffolk 832 lessons - 5 schools teaching - 12 engaged 330 children missing education here Essex 318 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 11 engaged 610 children missing education here Bedford 120 lessons - commissioned centrally 80 children missing education here Cambridgeshire 106 lessons - 1 school teaching - 3 engaged 510 children missing education here

London · 8 authorities

Enfield 2,114 lessons - 1 school teaching - 1 engaged 110 children missing education here Hillingdon 1,655 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 6 engaged 310 children missing education here Brent 1,214 lessons - 3 schools teaching - 3 engaged 160 children missing education here Lewisham 1,015 lessons - 1 school teaching - 1 engaged 20 children missing education here Greenwich 328 lessons - 1 school teaching - 1 engaged 100 children missing education here Redbridge 311 lessons - 3 schools teaching - 3 engaged 510 children missing education here Lambeth 310 lessons - 1 school teaching - 2 engaged Barking and Dagenham 245 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 8 engaged 50 children missing education here

South East · 3 authorities

Kent 1,598 lessons - 9 schools teaching - 15 engaged 1,340 children missing education here Brighton and Hove 561 lessons - 1 school teaching - 1 engaged 40 children missing education here Hampshire 458 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 6 engaged 340 children missing education here

South West · 4 authorities

Bath and North East Somerset 1,005 lessons - 4 schools teaching - 8 engaged 100 children missing education here Devon 521 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 5 engaged 190 children missing education here Dorset 483 lessons - 2 schools teaching - 5 engaged 50 children missing education here Swindon 349 lessons - 3 schools teaching - 4 engaged 100 children missing education here

Our figures. Lesson, school and placement counts come from Purple Ruler's own delivery records and count only sessions that ran and were completed. Each area page reports delivery only and makes no claim about attendance or examination outcomes; those belong to whoever arranged the place.

The national figures. Children missing education: Department for Education, Children missing education, Autumn term 2025/26, published 2026-01-15. Plans issued within the statutory twenty weeks: Department for Education, Education, health and care plans, calendar year 2025, published 2026-09-17.